Macro photography: How to get up close for flower and insect photos
Garden macro photography can open up a whole new world and getting good images have never been easier. Here are some tips on capturing more intimate scenes, from flower closeups to butterflies and other insects that call your garden home.
Fujifilm X10: Ten years on, can it still compete with modern compact cameras?
The Fujifilm X10 is a 10-year-old high-end compact camera that still has everything a garden photographer needs to capture beautiful garden images.
Ten tips for great garden and flower photography
Here are ten tips to help you improve your garden photography. A good camera and lens is a great start but more important is great vision and attention to technique to ensure good results.
What’s the best camera and lens for Garden photography?
What’s the best camera and lens for garden photography? The real question you need to ask is: what type of garden photography do I enjoy. A high-end point and shoot camera with a moderate wide angle and telephoto lens that has macro capability is a great choice.
Tips to photograph wildlife in your woodland garden
Creating the right environment to be successful in the garden involves a lot of hard work. But, in the end, it pays off. It’s not luck that you saw an oriole, a fox or hummingbird in your garden. It’s the result of that hard work you put in earlier to create the right conditions.
Create your own custom garden photography book: Ten simple steps
Creating a custom photo book of your garden is not only simple, it’s an enjoyable and extremely creative process. By creating a garden book each year, you can document its yearly growth in a series of beautiful books of your own photography. The customized books from Mixbook are also great ways to document memorable vacations, or a year in the life of your children or grandchildren.
Trail camera turns garden photography into backyard safari
The Wingscapes BirdCam Pro is a unique Trail Camera that allows extremely close focus to capture birds and mammals at feeders, birdbaths, bird houses and in the garden. Trail cameras, originally designed for hunters, are now becoming popular for homeowners and gardeners wanting to document the wildlife in their backyards.
Set the table for great garden photography with backyard wildlife studio
A backyard bird and wildlife studio combining food and water can be a magnet to attract a variety of birds and backyard wildlife and put them in a picturesque setting. Getting great photographs is easy, especially if you add a Tragopan Photographic blind to allow a close approach.
Picture perfect garden photography with your smartphone
Smartphones are excellent choices for garden photographers. Here are tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your smartphone camera for woodland and wildlife photography and suggestions for accessories that help you take better pictures with your favourite smartphone.
Garden photography: How to use props to photograph backyard birds
Capturing a little peace in the garden isn’t always about flower power. Try adding photographic props for birds to perch on to add a little whimsy to both your garden and your photographs. A peace sign is a “cool” prop that birds flock to like beatniks as free pot party.
Garden photography: Build a portable DIY reflection pond in three simple steps
How to create a reflection pond in three simple steps. It begins with purchasing a rubberized boot tray. Then add some natural materials such as moss, river rock, pea gravel, pine needles and, in the fall, colourful leaves. The last step, add a little water and you are ready to start capturing professional looking reflection images of birds and mammals.